TeachME Professional Development

1. Although a large number of students may have emotional, behavioral, or learning difficulties, those who are suffering from true internal pathology represent a relatively small segment of the population.

2. Non-cooperative, disruptive, and aggressive proactive classroom misbehaviors tend to be rewarding and satisfying because the behavior itself is exciting or because the behavior leads to desired outcomes, including each of the following EXCEPT:

3. Classroom and school-wide practices can and need to do much more to capitalize on natural opportunities to promote social and emotional development and to minimize transactions that interfere with positive growth in these areas.

4. Interventions to promote mental health encompass not only strengthening individuals, but also enhancing nurturing and supportive conditions at school, at home, and in the neighborhood.

5. The thinking of those who study behavioral, emotional, and learning problems has long been dominated by models stressing psychosocial pathology.

6. The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that commonly occurring stressful events in a youngsters life can lead to common behavioral responses, including community/social challenges such as discrimination, family isolation, and:

7. Infants and preschool children typically display negative emotional behaviors when frustrated or irritable, but the severity of the behaviors varies depending on:

8. Problem levels of aggressive behavior may run in families, so when marked aggression is present, the assessor must examine the family system, the types of behaviors modeled, and the possibility of abusive interactions.

9. Conduct disorder is characterized by:

10. Consequences involve depriving students of things they want and/or making them experience something they don't want, and they take the form of removal/deprivation, reprimands, reparations, and recantations.

11. Although there is no consensus about what behavioral initiatives must look like, they all seem to prioritize direct and indirect ways to promote student social and emotional development.

12. Which of the following is NOT one of the recommended focus areas for student learning when addressing school misbehavior?

13. In order to promote an academic environment that enhances social/emotional development and optimizes achievement, a solution-focused approach to learning is recommended.

14. All efforts to respond to behavior problems can and should be done in the context of circumscribed and specialized system designed to address barriers to learning and teaching.

15. When redirecting misbehaviors, a calm and safe atmosphere can be re-established by using understanding of student's underlying motivation for misbehaving to clarify what occurred, and by validating each participant's perspective and feelings.

16. An estimated ___________ of students fail to learn because of psychosocial problems that interfere with their ability to fully attend to and engage in instructional activities.

17. Factors that trigger problematic behavior can result from a mismatch between the classroom setting or academic demands and a student’s strengths, skills, or:

18. One way for teachers to alter classroom conditions or activities to decrease problem behaviors is to recognize and modify behavioral hotspots in terms of routine, content, and learning styles.

19. Experts contend that observation and documentation of student, classroom, and school behavior challenges can be invaluable in targeting resources and changing strategies to improve behavior at school

20. The influence of peer relationships on school engagement tend to be very different for boys and girls, as well as for youth with from different socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds.

21. Students with a less favorable view of school are seen as tending to feel insecure and disconnected, they are more likely to view teachers and classmates as unfriendly, and their negative perception of school can lead to aggressive and anti-social behaviors at school.

22. In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, parents learn specific positive attentions skills such as emphasizing behavioral descriptions, reflections, and labeled praises as well as:

23. Antipsychotic medications are often used to treat motor hyperactivity, flight of ideas, grandiosity, poor judgement, or aggressiveness in children.

24. As a means to promote overall well-being as well as learning, the curriculum in every classroom must include a major emphasis on acquisition of basic knowledge and skills, which involve more than the three Rs and cognitive development.

25. Beyond the classroom, schools must have policy, leadership, and mechanisms for developing school-wide behavioral intervention programs, which may include partnership with other schools and weaving school and community resources together.